Rabbinic Interns
Rabbinic Interns
Under Rabbi Schlosberg's leadership, the GRJC is proud to welcome rabbinic interns to our community each year. We are delighted that this creates a strong connection between the GRJC and the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), a preeminent institution of higher Jewish learning in New York City where our interns study. Our rabbinic internship program also creates a win-win relationship: the GRJC benefits from the fresh perspectives offered by our interns and the intern benefits by learning in a synagogue atmosphere under the mentorship of an experienced rabbinic leader.
In the past, our interns have led services and programs such as our Mishpacha Minyan, Torah on Tap, Tot Shabbat, teen/youth programs and Shabbat services. Interns also have the opportunity to shadow the rabbi during lifecyle events such as b'nei mitzvah, baby namings and funerals/shiva minyanim and gain skills around communication, publicity, chaplaincy and community organizing.
Thank you to the Lapkin Foundation and JTS's Resnick internship program, sponsors of this program. We are proud of our rabbinic interns and know that they will continue to do great things for the Jewish people in the future.
Alex Friedman
GRJC's 2023-2025 Rabbinic Intern

Alex Friedman (he/him) is a Rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in his fourth year of study. A native Texan, Alex grew up in the Conservative movement, leading his shul's USY chapter as its president.
Alex holds a BA in Politics and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and is currently pursuing an MA in Jewish Education from JTS' William Davidson School. He has worked as rabbinic intern at his childhood synagogue in Austin, High Holiday Hazzan at Congregation Ahavas Chesed in Mobile, Alabama, and just finished a year of working with the Nativ Pre-college Leadership Program students as their rabbinic intern.
Alex enjoys cooking, podcasts, Jewish music and niggunim, and collecting owl tchotchkes.
Stefanie Gedan
GRJC's 2021-2023 Rabbinic Intern

Stefanie Gedan is a fifth-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is pursuing an MA in Hebrew Letters and a certificate in Pastoral Care. Originally from Minneapolis, Stefanie is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she earned a BA in Jewish Studies with an emphasis in modern Hebrew. Prior to entering rabbinical school, Stefanie studied for a year at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian yeshiva on the Upper West Side of New York.
In 2020, Stefanie commissioned in the United States Navy and serves as a Chaplain Candidate Program Officer. Previously she was the student rabbi at the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation in southern Georgia and the rabbinic intern at the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Minneapolis.
.Shani Abramowitz
GRJC's 2019-2021 Rabbinic Intern
GRJC's 2019-2021 Rabbinic Intern

Sam Hollander
GRJC's 2018-2019 Rabbinic Intern
GRJC's 2018-2019 Rabbinic Intern

Originally from Cherry Hill, NJ, he graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University, majoring in Psychology and Jewish Studies. Before beginning his rabbinic studies at the JTS, Rabbi Hollander studied for a year in Jerusalem at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.
Passionate about immersive Jewish experiences, Rabbi Hollander has worked for both Camp Ramah in the Poconos and Ramah Israel Seminar. He has completed a Master’s Concentration in Israel Education with the iCenter and was an AIPAC Leffell Israel Fellow.
Passionate about immersive Jewish experiences, Rabbi Hollander has worked for both Camp Ramah in the Poconos and Ramah Israel Seminar. He has completed a Master’s Concentration in Israel Education with the iCenter and was an AIPAC Leffell Israel Fellow.
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